Kings, emirs and presidents from Muslim nations have made pressing appeals at the United Nations for the West to clampdown on attacks on Islam which they warned is a growing threat to international security.

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Yasser Arafat, predecessor to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas as head of Fatah, gave the green light to Hamas for the so-called â€œSecond Intifada,â€ actually a terror war of unprecedented magnitude that began in 2000, the terrorist organization admitted.

Disney is allowing a Muslim employee at its Orange County theme park to wear a specially designed headscarf after initially objecting to her religious head covering, the Council on American-Islamic Relations early Tuesday.

Terrorism struck high in Afghanistan on Tuesday when a suicide bomber murdered the deputy governor of Ghazni province and five others. The Taliban, which U.S. military forces are trying to help defeat, has been increasingly active in Ghazni, southwest of Kabul, over the past several years.

Chancellor Angela Merkel said that Germans have failed to grasp how Muslim immigration has transformed their country and will have to come to terms with more mosques than churches throughout the countryside, according to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung daily.